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Online Software Services
Teachers in the Lincoln Public Schools utilize several software services and web-based applications, operated not by the district but by third parties, in order to provide the most effective software tools and educational opportunities to students. All third-party software services that use individual student accounts are reviewed by the District for educational appropriateness, compliance with District policies, and appropriate protection of student privacy. A complete list of these third-party software services and which grades they are used at, including links to terms of service and privacy policies, is maintained below.In order for students to use the third-party software services listed below, parents must sign and return the Student Use of Third-Party Software form located in the Student & Parent Handbook. If teachers identify additional services that they will use during the school year, they will obtain parental consent for those services during the school year.The Lincoln Public Schools is a member of the Massachusetts Student Data Privacy Consortium. This organization brings together districts that put a high value on student privacy and builds collective strength when negotiating agreements with software vendors. It also gives us access to the consortium's legal expertise and analysis. The software list below includes software vetted and/or covered by data processing agreements reached both locally and through the consortium.
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Actively Learn is a collection of high-quality ELA, Science, and Social Studies Texts |
Hanscom 6-8 |
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Managed Apple IDs are created for students to provide managed iOS services to students. Managed Apple IDs are controlled by the school and maintain a focus on education and safety by disabling App Store purchasing, iTunes purchasing, Book Store purchasing, HomeKit, ApplePay, Find My Friends, iCloud Mail, and other non-educational services. Managed Apple IDs are also not used for marketing or advertising purposes. |
Grades K-8 |
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ASSISTments is a responsive online math learning platform developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). |
Grades 5-8 |
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Benchmark Universe is a provider of digital eBooks and other resources to support early literacy and language development. |
Grades K-2 |
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Biblionasium is a social reading community for students, teachers, and parents that builds students' interest and enthusiasm for reading in a safe online environment. |
Grade 5 |
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Bookshare is the world’s largest accessible online library for people with print disabilities. Students with qualifying print disabilities are able to download and access texts in accessible formats. |
Grades K-8 |
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Boom Cards is a website for self-grading exercises to gauge student learning. |
Grade 7 |
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BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.hosts original animated video content in a variety of K-8 academic areas. |
Grades K-8 |
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Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Academy is an online computer science curriculum. |
Grades 6-8 |
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Checkology helps students develop their information and media literacy skills. |
Grades 6-8 |
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Class Dojo is a tool for helping teachers, parents and students build positive classroom environments. |
Hanscom Grades 4-8 |
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Class Kick is a platform that helps teachers provide feedback to students while they are working. |
Grade 8 |
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Classzone, Ed, and ThinkCentral are the online learning platforms that accompany our textbooks published Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. |
Grades 6-8 |
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Clever provides secure and safe rostering and single sign-on for services including Dreambox, Lexia, and Seesaw. |
Grades K-8 |
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Code.org provides an online Introduction to Computer Programming course. |
Grades K-8 |
CommonLit is an nonprofit educational technology organization that provides teachers with digital resources that support the development of reading and writing skills. |
Grades 3-8 |
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Delta Math provides supplementary instructional math videos to help students review and practice their math skills. |
Grades 5-8 |
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Desmos is an online math platform for students and teachers the provides a powerful graphing calculator and online learning tools. |
Grades 5-8 |
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Dreambox Learning is adaptive learning software for mathematics that provides students with individualized practice and instruction. |
Grades K-5 |
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EdClub Typing Club is an online tool for developing keyboarding skills used primarily as an OT/PT support. |
Grades K-8 |
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EdPuzzle is a platform for interactive learning videos. |
Hanscom Grades 3-8; Lincoln Grades 4-8 |
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EduTyping is an online for developing keyboarding skills used in grades 2-5. |
Grades 2-5 |
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Elli (formerly ESL Library) provides digital curriculum, content, and learning tools used by our English language learners. |
Grades K-6 |
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Epic! is an online collection of eBooks for children 12 and under. |
Grades K-8 |
Explain Everything is a digital whiteboard that allows for collaboration in a digital space. |
Grades K-3 and 6 |
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Explore Learning Gizmos are interactive science simulations for when in-person experiments are not possible. |
Grades 6-8 |
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Everfi is a learning platforms that uses simulations to educate students to use technology safely. |
Grades 6-8 |
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Everyday Math Online is a collection of online resources for students and parents to support the McGraw-Hill Everyday Mathematics curriculum. |
Grades 1-5 |
Flat for Education is a music education platform. |
Grades 2-4 |
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Formative is an instructional and formative assessment platform. |
Grades 3-8 |
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FOSS on ThinkLink is the online component of the district's K-5 science curriculum |
Grades K-5 |
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Freckle provides differentiated instruction in Math and Literacy. |
Lincoln Grade 2 |
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Gimkit is a live learning game platform that allows teachers to create competitive learning quizzes for students. |
Grades 5-8 |
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Google Apps for Education (No Email) enables collaboration and electronic assignment submission by providing a suite of web-based applications. |
Grades K-8 |
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Google Apps for Education Email accounts are used by students in grades 6-8. Sending and receiving is limited to within the domain only, so students are not able to email with anyone outside the school community. |
Grades 6-8 |
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HMH Ed: Your Friend in Learning is the platform for the online component of our 6-8 science curriculum, HMH Science Dimensions. |
Grades 6-8 |
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iCivics provides educational simulation games that place students in different civic roles and gives them agency to address real-world problems and issues. |
Grade 8 |
iReady is a personalized learning platform primarily used in the district for math assessments. |
Grades K-8 |
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Pear Deck and Pear Assessments are online formative assessment tools. |
Grades 4-8 |
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Savvas Realize (formerly Pearson Realize) is the online platform for the district's 6-8 math curriculum, CMP3. |
Grades 6-8 |
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Prodigy Math is an online platform for building math skills and is primarily used in special education at Hanscom grades 6-7. |
Grades 6-7 |
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Math Games is a collection of online math games used primarily on the Lincoln campus in grades 7 and 8. |
Grades 7-8 |
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Membean helps students build vocabulary and is primarily used at Hanscom grades 6-7. |
Grades 6-7 |
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Kahoot! provides teachers with a platform to create learning games for students. |
Grades K-8 |
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Khan Academy provides supplementary instructional materials and practice in a variety of subjects. |
Grades 3-8 |
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Kidblog is a safe and simple platform for students and teachers to share writing online and is primarily used at Hanscom grade 4. |
Grade 4 |
KiwiWrite supports students receiving OT/PT services in writing math equations. |
Grades K-8 |
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Language Live is a literacy intervention support that is used with select students. |
Grades 4-8 |
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Learning Ally provides audio texts to select students with a qualifying print disability through a grant with the State of Massachusetts. |
Grades K-8 |
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Legends of Learning provides research-based learning games in math and science. |
Hanscom 7-8 |
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Lexia Learning provides personalized literacy instruction. |
Grades K-5 |
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LucidPress is a document design and layout tool used by students to create digital magazines, brochures, and other documents, and is primarily used at Hanscom 4-8. |
Hanscom Grades 4-8 |
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SmartMusic is a web-based music education platform that provides students and teachers with guided practice tools and ongoing feedback, and is primarily used at Lincoln 5-8. |
Grades 5-8 |
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Sutori is an educational tool for creating collaborative timelines and is used primarily on the Hanscom campus. |
Grade 4) |
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MilitaryOneSource is a DoD-funded program that provides online research databases for student use. Most of these databases are accessed through a shared school account, with the exception of the CultureGrams database which requires individual student logins. |
Grades 6-8 (Hanscom only) |
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Mathigon is an active learning program that allows students to explore and discover the beauty and power of mathematics. |
Grades K-8 |
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Nearpod is a general instructional tool that provides interactive teaching and learning tools. |
Grades 2-8 |
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Newsela promotes student reading comprehension through collections of news articles, differentiated by reading level. |
Grades 4-8 (Hanscom); Grades 3-8 (Lincoln) |
No Red Ink help students build writing skills and is primarily used at Hanscom in grade 6. |
Grades 5-8 |
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NoteFlight is online musical composition software |
Grades 5-8 |
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OnShape for Education is a powerful online CAD platform using in Middle School science, engineering, and computer science. |
Grades 6-8 |
Padlet is a collaborative note taking and sharing platform. |
Grades 3-8 |
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PBS Learning Media is a collection of public media resources from PBS and WGBH, used primarily at Hanscom 7-8 |
Grades 7-8 |
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Pencil Code is a computer programming playground that students use to experiment with writing code to create art, music, and games. |
Grades 3-4 |
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Pixton is a digital storytelling and comics-creation tool, used primarily at Hanscom 6-7. |
Grades 6-7 |
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PlayPosit is a tool for teachers to create interactive video lessons that engage students and measure their learning. |
Hanscom Grades 3-8; Lincoln Grades 4-8 |
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Plickers is an online formative assessment tool. |
Grades 4-6 |
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Quia is a platform for creating online instructional activities and assessments, used primarily at Lincoln Grade 7. |
Grade 7 (Lincoln only) |
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Raz Kids is a digital reading platform primarily used with English language learners. |
Grades K-8 (Lincoln only) |
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Read Naturally is a support that is used with select students to increase reading fluency. |
Grades 2-8 |
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Research in Context is a collection of age-appropriate online research resources including videos, newspapers, magazine, and primary sources curated for Middle School students. |
Grade 6 |
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Scratch is a program of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab that introduces students to basic computer programming concepts. |
Grades 3-8 (Hanscom); Grades K-8 (Lincoln) |
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Seesaw is an online learning portfolio and the common learning platform in grades K-5. |
K-8 |
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Sight Reading Factory is an online platform for developing and practice music sight reading skills. |
Lincoln Campus 6-8 |
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Snap! is a visual, drag-and-drop programming language the University of California at Berkeley. Creating a user account allows students to save their projects. |
Grades 4-8 |
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Soundtrap for Education is an online music studio platform. |
Grades 3-8 |
Quill provides grammar and writing activities to develop students writing skills. |
Grades 5, 7, and 8 |
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Safe Online Surfing is a resource provided to schools and families by the FBI to help students learn about online safety. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service |
Grades 3-8 |
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Sora is an online platform for student to access e-books and audio books. Our school libraries use it to provide these resources to students in conjunction with their Destiny library system account and in partnership with the Massachusetts Library System. |
Grades K-8 |
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Tinkercad is online 3D design software that students use to create designs for 3D printing. |
Grades 4-8 (Hanscom Only) |
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Virtual High School provides online courses for enrichment to participating students using the Desire2Learn learning management system. |
Grades 6-8 (Students participating in VHS only) |
Vista Higher Learning is a language learning program used primarily with our English language learners. |
Grades K-8 |
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Voces Digital is a world language teaching tool. |
Grades 6-8 |
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XtraMath provides math fact practice. |
Grades 2-8 |